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For more information, please contact [email protected]. piece of glass in your palm has become a patch for a rift in the river Greta Wrolstad CutBank Poetry 65 Winter 2006 CutBank Poetry 65 Winter 2006 Editors: Brandon Shimoda & Devon Wootten Contributing Editors:Elisabeth Benjamin, Michael Bigley, Jill Beauchesne, Grace Egbert, Kathleen Farragher, Ashley Gorham, Nabil Kashyap, Molly McDonald, Jeremy Pataky, Elizabeth Sanger Intern:Haines Eason All photographs byGreta Wrolstad * Special thanks to Judy Blunt and Carol Hayes for their help, and to the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) for their generosity and support. Please address all correspondence to: CutBank, Department of English, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 Email: [email protected] On the web:www.cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com & www.umt.edu/cutbank CutBank is published twice a year by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). Subscriptions are $18 per year or $36 for two years. Sample copies $5. CutBank accepts submissions from August 15 through April 15. Manuscripts/slides must be accompanied by an SASE for return or response. CutBank is indexed in theCLMP Directory o f Literary Magazines, The Access to Little Magazines, The American Humanities Index,and theIndex to Periodic Verse. CutBank is available on microfiche from Gaylord Brothers, Inc., P.O. Box 61, Syracuse, NY 13210. Distributed by Ingram Periodicals, Inc., 1240 Heil Quaker Blvd, P.O. Box 7000, La Vergne, TN 37086-7000, (615) 793-5522. Printed by ArtCraft Printers. CutBank Poetry 65 is 1 After the Gallatin River, Outside Bozeman, Montana BRITTA AMEEL has lived most of her life west of the continental divide. Her cur­ rent stint in Ann Arbor, where she teaches and writes at the University of Michigan, makes her miss the mountains and the ocean. Her poems have appeared or are forth­ coming inem, Haydens Ferry Review, andFugue. 3 Active Rhythm (-Indigo Letter-) I Tell You These Things Because You Are Clearly In Pain CAL BEDIENT is the author of several books of literacy criticism and of two collections of poetry:Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) andThe Violence o f the Morning (University of Georgia). He is a co-editor of the New California Poetry series and teaches at UCLA. if Redolence JENNIFER K. DICK is the author ofFluorescence (University of Georgia Press, Contemporary Poetry Series winner 2004)Retina/Retine and (a bilingual, hand-sewn chapbook with artwork by Kate Vanhouten and translations by Remi Bouthonnier, Estepa Editions, Paris, 2005). Her recent work appears or is soon forthcoming in The Colorado Review, Aufgabe, The Canary, Mipoesias.com, Gargoyle, Diner and Green Mountains Review. She has guest edited a selection of French translations, including her own translations of French poet Remi Bouthonnier, and including interviews, for www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com (click on FRANCE). From Iowa, she currently lives in Paris where she is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle. She teaches for the ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique) and for Oxbridge Summer Programs. 10 Poi cominciai: ‘Belacqua, a me non dole” JOHN NIEKRASZ lives on the Clark Fork River in Missoula, Montana. He studied poetry at Iowa and cut his knuckle on the edge of a crash cymbal yesterday. uPoi cominciai: Belacqua, a me non dole’ is from a manuscript-in-progress entitled Belacqua. i 12 Belated Hymns I, IV, V JAIME SILES’ collections of poetry includeCanon, winner of the Premio Ocnos in 1973, Musica de agua, winner of the Premio de la Critica in 1983, Semaforos,and Semaforos, winner of the Premio Fundacion Loewe in 1989. These poems come from his 1999 collection,Himnos tardios, winner of the Premio Internacional de Poesi'a Generacion del 27. MILES WAGGENER’S translations of Jaime Siles can be found in Salt Hill, HUBBUB, International Poetry Review, and The Louisville Review. He teaches writing and literature at Prescott College. 17 The Heaven-Sent Leaf In the Flower Store Next Door Financial Release KATY LEDERER is the author of the poetry collection,Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoirPoker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003). She currently lives in Manhattan, where she works for a quantitative trading firm. 20 from Shades o f Death Road JILL MAGI is the author ofThreads, a hybrid work of text and image, forthcoming in 2006 from Futurepoem Books, and the chapbookCadastral Map, published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her work has appearedThe inNew Review o f Literature, Aufgabe, Chain, Boog City, Pierogi Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Global Cityand Review, is forthcoming Freehand.in Jill edits Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press with a corresponding web-zinewww.sonaweb.net at . She teaches at Tbe City College/CUNY Center for Worker Education, an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree program for working adults. 24 Excavations To X. and I PHAN NHIEN HAO was born in 1967 in Kontum, Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1991 and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a BA in Vietnamese Literature from The Teachers College of Saigon, a BA in American Literature from UCLA, and a Master in Library Science, also from UCLA. He is the author of two collections of poems,Paradise o f Paper Bells (1998) andManufacturing Poetry 99-04 (2004). His poems have been translated into English and published in the journalsThe Literary Review, Manoa, xconnect andFilling Station, and inO f Vietnam: Identities in Dialogues (Palgrave, 2001), and in a full-length, bilingual collection,Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry o f Phan Nhien translated Hao, by Linh Dinh (Tupelo 2006). LINH DINH is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press, 2000) andBlood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004), and three books of poems,All Around What Empties Out(Tinfish, 2003), American Tatts (Chax, 2005) andBorderless Bodies (Factory School, 2005). His work has been anthologizedBest in American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He is also the editor of the anthologiesNight, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam(Seven Stories Press 1996) andThree Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish, 2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry o f Phan Nhien (Tupelo, Hao 2005). He lives in Norwich, England as a David Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia. 2 6 from The Georgies VIRGIL (Publiius Virgilius Maro, 70-19 BCE) was born near Mantua inThe Gaul. Georgies, Virgil’s second major poem, took seven years to white, and was completed in 29 BCE. The work consists of over two thousand lines of poetry in four books and considers agriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping. 30 Rilke GINA MYERS lives in Brooklyn where she co-editsthe tiny with Gabriella Torres. 31 from The Jellyfish Diaries AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author ofMiracle Fruit, winner of the Tupelo Press Prize, and the forthcomingCorpse Flower. New work appears inTin House andHotel Amerika. She is assistant professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia. There is a toad who vexes her geriatric dachshund when she goes outside, in spite of all the lake effect snow. 3 4 An abridged history book &Totems In the spirit of a more honest contributors note, BOB HICOK announces that no ballet or symphony will soon be performed, based on his crown of thorny sonnets, nor will his work soon appear to have gained maturity of perspective, though a group of 3/8s of his poems are due outO Kin American Poetry: Why the Cow Says Moo. 35 Interview with D.A. Powell D.A. POWELL is the author of three full-length collections of poems; the most recent, Cocktails, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Lambda Book Awards. Powell’s work has appearedBoston in Review, Tin House, Denver Quar­ terly, and theWashington Post. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Powell was recently in residence in Montana as the Engelhard Visiting Writer. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and University of Iowa. He is presently on faculty at University of San Francisco. 43 [crematorium at sierra view cemetery next to the highschool, regarding the] D.A. POWELL 45 Cruel and Gentle Things O Good Samaritan AMY KING is the author of the poetry collection,Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazvox Books, 2005), and the chapbook,The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award, 2002). She currently teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and teaches a workshop of her own design, “Making the Urban Poetic,” at Poets House in Manhattan. Amy is also an interview correspondent for miPOradio. Please visitwww.amyking.org for more. 48 from Helsinki PETER RICHARDS is the author ofOubliette (Verse Press, 2001) andNude Siren (Verse Press, 2003). He teaches at Harvard University where he is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in American Language and Literature. 53 flings shifted CINDY SAVETT teaches poetry workshops to psychiatric inpatients at several hospitals in the Philadelphia area.